11 A.M. (HBO) THE COMPANY (2003) In this ensemble drama featuring members of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Robert Altman follows a dance troupe through a few months of its season while focusing on Ry (Neve Campbell, far right), a ballerina trying to make her way to the top as she keeps company with Josh (James Franco), a chef. Malcolm McDowell plays Alberto Antonelli, the company’s genteel, bristling artistic director, who is so self-absorbed that he has no idea of the damage he is capable of inflicting. In his review for The New York Times, Elvis Mitchell wrote that the film “is enjoyably lithe and droll yet somehow almost water-soluble; it seems to dissolve on screen.”

8 P.M. (LMN) COLD SPRING (2013) Natasha Henstridge and Sean Patrick Flanery play Sara and Roy, a couple who move to a Hudson River town to rebuild their marriage after the husband’s affair. But then his lover shows up with her son. And any woman Roy comes into contact with ends up dead.

8:30 P.M. (13) NEED TO KNOW Karla Murthy reports from California about a family dealing with the emotional and financial stresses of caring for a chronically ill parent. Scott Simon, the episode’s anchor, interviews Robyn Stone, a deputy assistant secretary of health and human services for disability, aging and long-term care policy under President Bill Clinton. And Hannah Yi reports from Rhode Island on a program that pays family members to care for loved ones.

8:30 P.M. (TV5Monde) SAUVONS LES APPARENCES (2008) After his mother has an accident, an overweight 14-year-old (Pierre Salandre) is sent to live with his aunt (Agnès Soral) and uncle (Wladimir Yordanoff) in Switzerland. They put him on a diet. Then he meets a Japanese girl (Xing Li) who loves sumo wrestling. Nicole Borgeat directed this comedy, shown in French with English subtitles.

9 P.M. (Cooking) TASTE IN TRANSLATION Aarti Sequeira, the Season 6 winner of “Food Network Star,” presents the world’s most popular dishes for special occasions, starting with birthday fare.

9 P.M. (VH1) NOTORIOUS (2009) Jamal Woolard plays the Brooklyn rapper Christopher Wallace, a k a Biggie Smalls; Angela Bassett is his mother, Voletta Wallace; and Derek Luke is Sean Combs in this drama about Wallace, who was killed in 1997 at 24. “Biggie Smalls’s best songs are so vivid — and the circumstances of their making are so vividly reconstructed here — that the usual nostalgic biopic haze never settles over ‘Notorious,’ ” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. “It’s half pop fable, half naturalistic docudrama. Not a bad movie, but nowhere near as strong as its soundtrack.”

10 P.M. (USA) OVER/UNDER (2013) In this two-hour pilot for a series that wasn’t made, Steven Pasquale plays Paul, a Manhattan day trader whose gambling addiction costs him his job, forcing him to relocate to Brooklyn with his wife, Vicky (Carolina Dhavernas), a photographer. Then Paul starts a high-end bookie business with a young father-to-be (Anthony Carrigan).

12:30 A.M. (Spike) CINDERELLA MAN (2005) In this biopic from Ron Howard, Russell Crowe, below, portrays James J. Braddock, the Depression-era heavyweight boxing champion, who on June 13, 1935, fought the fight of his life against Max Baer (Craig Bierko). But it’s the face-off between Braddock and his manager (Paul Giamatti) that gives the film its bite. One of its satisfactions is that the story that unfolds inside the ring is not the same one that the filmmakers seem keen to sell, Manohla Dargis said in The Times. “Their Cinderella Man is the decent little guy who affirms what movie people call the triumph of the human spirit,” she wrote. “The story Mr. Crowe tells, with Mr. Giamatti as a gleeful Mephistopheles, is that of a man who, having sampled the blood of others, clearly enjoyed the taste.” KATHRYN SHATTUCK